The Narrative Study of Lives
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The Narrative Study of Lives

Volume 5

  1. 269 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Narrative Study of Lives

Volume 5

About this book

The narrative approach is a relevant and enriching technique for uncovering, describing, and interpreting the meaning of experience. This collection explores the challenges of performing narrative work in an academic setting, writing about it in an ethical and revealing fashion, and drawing meaningful conclusions. This stellar collection of scholars examine such topics as how the larger construct of "personality" can be read out of life story; life narratives of reform, i.e., the transition away from delinquent behavior; the importance of cultural continuity for understanding loneliness in elderly refugees; race relations and how it relates to the meaning of the decade in which the interviewees came of age; the experience and meaning of resilience among survivors of childhood sexual abuse; and the use of narrative work as an additional approach within a larger quantitative research project. Amia Lieblich and Ruthellen Josselson provide insight into how the narrative appraoch enriches the study of the rare, the unusual, the common, and the prevalent, always searching for meaning in peopleÆs lives.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction
  4. Chapter 1 - The Discursive Construction of Personality
  5. Chapter 2 - National Identity or Multicultural Autobiography: Theoretical Concepts of Biographical Constitution Grounded in Case Reconstructions
  6. Chapter 3 - Arbiters of Female Purity: Conversations with Israeli Ritual Bath Attendants
  7. Chapter 4 - Going Straight: Desistance from Crime and Life Narratives of Reform
  8. Chapter 5 - Soldiers' Narratives of Selective Moral Resistance: A Separate Position of the Connected Self?
  9. Chapter 6 - Loneliness in Cultural Context: A Look at the Life-History Narratives of Older Southeast Asian Refugee Women
  10. Chapter 7 - Lost in the Fifties: A Study of Collected Memories
  11. Chapter 8 - Adolescence, Gender, and the Development of Mental Health
  12. Chapter 9 - In Search of Resilience in Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse: Linking Outlets for Power Motivation to Psychological Health
  13. Index
  14. About the Contributors